Simón Bolívar's relations with the United States, 1810-1830 Item Type text; Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Generalao, Pedro Canoy, 1905- Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 08/10/2021 18:01:23 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/553364 s m m BOLIVAR13 RSLATIGHS WITH THE HOTTED STATES, 1810-1830 Pedro Canoy Generalao A Thesis sulnaitted to the faculty of the Departmunt of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate College University of Arizona 1938 ■«> . ilBRATrt £ 9 7 9 / / 93? ACKHOWLB]iie?»wc[T The writer is Indebted to Dr. R. C. JBvflng for his sympathetic guidance in the preparation of this paper. His patience, helpful suggestion and constant encouragement were as gratefully * received as they were graciously given. -il TABLE OFGOHTEU23 page Introduoticm. ■ 1 y A. The general foreign policy of Bolivar. : ; B.. His travels and studies abroad. ' - ; ' - ' • C» The liberator's early Impressions of the -Xhilted. States, -V-.' United Statesr moral'-support. :B. 'BollTar1 s part in the struggle for polttioal .:‘:;;;:4 1 ndepmiam«.:-v-.. : ;v:4;y. • C. The efforts of the Venezuelan commissioners to the United States. •v4-Vvy:;--y - D. The reports of the Halted States agents to Venezuela. B. The growing interests of the United States and tiie strengthening of the neutrality V laws. F. The adventures of McGregor and Aury on Amelia Island. G. The conference "between Bolivar and Baptis Irvine. H. The efforts of Henry Clay for reoogiition. I. The Florida treaty and recognition. III. Reaction against BolivarTs program of universal emancipation 1820-1826 38 A. Why Bolivar pursued the program of universal emancipation. -lit- 3. Opposition to emancipation in Great Colombia. C. Clay’s early attituA® toward. Bolivar’s pero-' ' ; . - gram. ' D. The slaTeomWe’ reaction in the United States. : :B. fhe opposition in tbs TTnited States to Boli­ var’s policy. ¥, The attacks of the newspapers, against the liberator. ' ; ; G. Wto* the slave owners’ reaction was justified. IT; Opposition in the United. States to Bolivar’s attempt to invade Cuba 1826-1828 63 A. V/hy Bolivar attempted.to invade Cuba. ■ ; B. The interest of the United States in the island. C. The influence of Bolivar upon the liberals in Cuba. : :1). Bolivar’s announcmnent of the project. E. Opposition in the United States to Bolivar’s plan. ' / F. The pacific overtures of Clay and the suspen­ sion of the attacks. G* The senate opposition to.send delegates to the Panama congress. H. The failure of the Panama congress and Bolivar’s determination to proceed. I. Hhy the project failed. T. Slm5n Bolivar end the Colombian crown 1828-1830 90 A. Suspicion of Bolivar’s ambition in the United . - States. - B. San Martin’s suggestion and Bolivar’s refusal. C. William Tudor’s interesting reports to the state department. B. The affairs of Danfort T. Watts. E. Harrison’s mlsslcm to BogoM. F. The dissolution of the Oeana ccmTenticai <m .p/(. Jime ll, 18E8I , : Q-. Why Bollyar "became reactionary. ' ’ H. Thtmas P. Moore’s defence of Bolivar. I, Colonel Wilson’s ohservatimis in tiie United . ; -" States. - : ' . ' J . Bolivar’s sensitiveness of critlcians in the United States. VI. Gonclusicm 119 1... Why Bolivar pursued the policy of cultivating friendly relations with the United States. B. Opposition to Bolivar’s project in the United . ; • States. C. Influence of the English upon Bolivar and M s ^vemment. .■ Moore’s estimate of Bolivar’s character. B« Bolivar1 s last impressicm of the people of the United States. Bibliography 125 Appendix 137 List ":6f Illustrations Sira&i Bolivar Frontispiece list of Maps «=** a-oheon Area following 37 South America following 89 CHAPTER. I ZHTROHJCTIOH. The general foreign, policy of Simon Bolivar toward the Vnlted States was to maintain an intimate and close relation. Time and again in his printed oorrespmasno® b® ex^essed a wi#i for its aid, confided in its protection, sought its mediation, and •mined its opinion of him. He did hot enter­ tain dial ike for the United States nor fear of her policy. Both his ov/n statements and those of the men who knew him v; /best demonstrate that he admired the republic of the north, its statesmen, its people, its ideas, and its institutions. To Bolivar the United States. ms no potential "colos­ sus of the north", prone to swallow its weaker neighbors down into the abysmal gullet of manifest destiny. Vihen the United States began to advance down to Florida, the libera­ tor merely remarked, "Horth America , pursuing its arith­ metical round of business, will avail itself of the oppor- tunity to gain the ZLoridas." Hhere the liberator seems to criticize the United States, he is in reality uttering a note of vraming. Eren v/hen in exile, when the future lookest darkest, his reproaches to the Americans for their failure to afford direct aid to Bolivar to the president of the United Provinces of Hew Granada, Kingston, July 10, 1815. lemma, I, 157. their struggling brethren in the southern countries are not those of anger hut of disappointment. Throughout his eareer his feeling of respect and affection for the great leader of its w r for independence seldom faltered and never failed, - :;::\: :\But in order to understand BolftarT s attitude and pcti,iey torord the Qnited States, o m must remomher that hy . hirth, training, and tmiperament he was an aristocrat. An earnest "believer in the superiority of republics to monar­ chies as such, he knew that the Spanish Americans were idiolly unfitted for self-government as the United States understood B ' ■ and practiced it. A republic like Haiti, xtiiere the presi- dent was an autocrat, appealed to him more than a m in vAilch the executive was subject to restrictions imposed by the direct representatives ef the people holding their offices by election and for a brief tenure. ^ i Bolivar gained his republican ideas throng his travels and studies abroad, for the inquisition prohibited the 1m-. portatl<m of the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Raynal, Mcmtes- -- V : ■ ' • : ■ • 3 qpieu, Mderot, Helvetius, Hume, Addison, and BeFoe. He went to Spain, Sigland, France, and Italy. To judge by his observations he was greatly affected with the degradation and oppression of his native country. Abroad he discovered William R. Shepherd, "Bolivar and the United States", American historical review. I, 1918, B72. ^ William S. Robertson, Hispanic-American relations with the UnltodStates. 10. Jcdin M. Hiles, "View of South America. and Mexico", Pan- Amerloan union bulletin. X H V , 1930, 1138. “ “ that liberty is the natural element of man, wherein alone his faeulties attain their just gro¥Jth a M full deirelop-- ment, and vfliieh alone gives to him his proper rank and dignity in creation. As his soul warmed vrith the love of liberty, he more deeply lamented the enslaved and degraded condition of his country* On the summit of Monte. Aventlno, Bolivar vowed, ®€2n ay honar and on my life I swear that this arm shall never rest until it has delivered America from the 6 yoke of the tyrants.* On M e way to Caracas in 1806 he heard with Intense interest of the efforts of William Wilberforce, who held the torch in the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave trade. In the Chlted States he found several societies or­ ganized expressly for the abolition of slavery. Through the activities of these societies and the support given by such prcmlnent men as George Washington, Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, and Benj am in Franklin, Bolivar was convinced that slavery was "becoming a dying institution. ? three months in the United States ( October to Janu­ ary, 1807) Bolivar saw the pioneers working courageously, houses being built, and towns growing. H e ; stayed for several weeks in Boston, which nmEized him with its buildings in various colored bricks, the carefully paved streets, the ■ %j.; . ■■ ' '; f Ibid..1339. Michael Yaucaire. Bolivar, the liberator. 14. f William Ihipper, tiBulogy-oh William Wilberforce. * Slavery pamphlet, no. 3, 14. , ' enormous public Tmildlngs, and tho Exchange Coffee House, emtalned two bunared rocras. BolfTar went to visit the Charleston na^y yard. He sew an enaraous man-of-war. He ocaapared his o m country, still uncivilized, crushed by taxes and oppressed by Spanish gbver- nors, wltii this free, active, and ambitious nation# He also visited the tomb of George Washington, where he swore to de­ vote his life to the liberation of the American colonies. Viewing the scenes of the struggle for liberty, beholding everywhere about him evidence of contentment and prosperity under a republican system that contrasted so strongly with the condition he Know to exist at home, had fortified the resolution he made while in Europe to free his unhappy land frtm tiie tiiadkles of foreign rule. That no record of Bolivar's personal impressions of his visits in the United States seems to have survived is unfor­ tunate. Had they been unfavorable, or of scant influence Upon his mind and spirit, the proof would have been forth­ coming in some of his later utterances. But the absence of adverse comment, and the repeated occasions on which he testified to his regard for the United States, demonstrate that his remembrance in the main was one of affection and gratitude. Bolivar never fergot the hospitality accorded ° Vaucaire, ou.eit. 18 f Shepherd, ou.cl^.